Telecom Data Scientist: Generative AI & RAN Innovator

Ericsson AB; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson AB invites candidates for the Early Career Program, a measured 18‑month journey starting in the Telecom Data Scientist role within the Applied Generative AI team. The program includes three rotations, including one international exposure, with day-one hiring into a role and a path to impact across RAN challenges.

You will learn to translate network and product challenges into AI solutions, build data pipelines and AI capabilities, and contribute to data-driven product development while

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in data science, computer science, AI, machine learning, telecommunications, electrical or software engineering, mathematics, or a related field.
• Applied data science and machine-learning skills, including statistics, experimentation, model development and evaluation.
• Practical generative-AI experience in LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, model adaptation, AI agents or model evaluation.
• Knowledge of wireless communications or radio networks, and interest in building deeper RAN expertise.
• Hands-on programming and software-development experience, including work with complex data and reproducible analyses, models or pipelines.
• Understanding of how product development connects requirements, architecture, implementation, verification, release and maintenance.
• Analytical judgement, an experimental mindset, and the ability to explain uncertainty, model limitations and technical trade-offs.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, proficiency in English, and readiness to work in global, cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Translate RAN and product-development challenges into data science and AI problems with defined success metrics.
• Make engineering information useful and trustworthy for AI by organizing specs, code, tests and logs.
• Build data pipelines, knowledge systems and retrieval capabilities across formats.
• Experiment with and evaluate machine learning and generative AI, including LLMs and AI agents.
• Connect code, system knowledge and operational evidence to support development, verification, deployment and maintenance.
• Turn successful experiments into maintainable engineering capabilities with attention to data quality and responsible AI.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

Statistics

Experimentation

Model development

Model evaluation

Communication skills

Collaboration

English proficiency

Education

MSc or PhD in data science or related field

Job description

Ericsson AB invites candidates for the Early Career Program, a measured 18‑month journey starting in the Telecom Data Scientist role within the Applied Generative AI team. The program includes three rotations, including one international exposure, with day-one hiring into a role and a path to impact across RAN challenges.

You will learn to translate network and product challenges into AI solutions, build data pipelines and AI capabilities, and contribute to data-driven product development while